Hidden Notes Vol 3

HIDDEN NOTES VOL.3 
23.09 - 24.09.23
STROUD-GLOUCESTERSHIRE-UK

MUSIC
HANNAH PEEL  / MIDORI TAKADA / NYX / MANCHESTER COLLECTIVE / AKUSMI / ALEXANDRA HAMILTON-AYRES / FRAN & FLORA / BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL / SARAH NICOLLS / JOSH SEMANS

INSTALLATION
PARTICLE SHRINE

FILMS
DELIA DERBYSHIRE: THE MYTHS & LEGENDARY TAPES
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA

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”Top Festival for expanding your musical horizons…” The Big Issue, Festival Guide 2022

“Amazing artists from independent labels…With audiences that come from Poland, Spain, Germany, Japan and America, you’ll be mingling in a crowd of international, like-minded music lovers.” Composer Magazine

Following the sold out Hidden Notes Festival vol.2 which finally took place in 2022 (after two years of rescheduling!) the festival returns in 2023 across various venues in the centre of Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK (including churches, art galleries, art centres, and independent record shops) on the weekend of the 23rd-24th September.

For vol.3? Mercury Music Prize and Emmy-nominated composer, and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Hannah Peel will be headlining the Saturday performing her acclaimed album Fir Wave, a reinterpretation of the original music of the celebrated 1972 KPM 1000 series: Electrosonic, the music of Delia Derbyshire and the Radiophonic Workshop. Closing the festival on the Sunday for an extremely rare UK performance will be none other than the legendary Japanese composer and percussionist Midori Takada whose output over the past 40 years weaves through solo, group and theatrical practices. Takada’s 1981 album Through the Looking Glass is considered an essential recording of minimalist music.

As well as live music HN vol.3 features Particle Shrine; a generative, physics-driven installation where light and sound is controlled by live data from five cosmic ray detectors and a neutrino observatory in Japan. Created by composer Christo Squier in collaboration with particle physicist Dr. Teppei Katori and creative technologist Chris Ball, Particle Shrine was commissioned by Science Gallery London and will be installed at the SVA Goods Shed, utilising d&b audiotechnik’s ground-breaking Soundscape system. The result is a constantly evolving, mesmerising environment influenced by the random movements of subatomic particles which have been blasted from deep in the universe…

From mind bending installations we head back to the live line-up with NYX - a collaborative drone choir derived from an absence of intersectional, vulnerable and rich roles for female, trans and non-binary artists in opera, choral, electronic and performance music and Manchester Collective known for their experimental programming and daring collaborations who will be performing Steve Reich’s cult masterpiece ‘Different Trains’ – an exploration of speech, history, and memory. Elsewhere Akusmi (French-born, London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pascal Bideau) will perform an improvised set influenced by his 2022 debut Fleeting Futures selected as the Guardian’s album of the month upon its release and the award-winning film composer, multi-instrumentalist and performing artist Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres who recently signed to Nils Frahm’s label LEITER. Fran and Flora also return to Stroud with their unique brand of compositions and arrangements which stem from the modes and melodies of Klezmer, Transylvanian, Romanian, Greek and Armenian music.

This year’s festival also brings forth composers who focus on bringing rarely heard, seen and sometimes forgotten instruments to the fore such as the Scottish smallpipes of leading purveyor of experimental Celtic music Brìghde Chaimbeul who collaborated with Colin Stetson for her new album which will be released in April this year and the ondes Martenot by Hidden Notes Records artist Josh Semans. New instruments also make an appearance with the Inside Out Piano - an invention by pianist/composer Sarah Nicolls - a grand piano whose strings run straight upwards from the keyboard, shaped so that the audience see into the instrument: the guts and moving parts literally on show…

Films also feature on the programme with Delia Derbyshire: The Myths & The Legendary Tapes - a cinematic portrait of the legendary musical innovator written and directed by Caroline Catz (who also performs the lead role) and Stephen Nomura Schible’s documentary CODA about the Oscar winning composer, pioneer of electronic music and environmental activist Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Lates [At] HN (late night DJ sessions) will return as will exhibitions, talks and Q&A’s but more news on that soon…

SAT 23.09.22
HANNAH PEEL  / NYX / AKUSMI / FRAN & FLORA / SARAH NICOLLS
PARTICLE SHRINE 
DELIA DERBYSHIRE: THE MYTHS & LEGENDARY TAPES

SUN 24.09.22
MIDORI TAKADA / MANCHESTER COLLECTIVE / ALEXANDRA HAMILTON-AYRES / BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL /  JOSH SEMANS
PARTICLE SHRINE
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA

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